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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For B2+ (Boron diatomic cation)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pCVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001024 -0.002480 -0.002480 -0.002522 -0.165754 -0.007409 -0.007610 -0.190456 -0.032965 -0.006707 -0.029518 -0.002145 -0.015657 -0.042624 -0.002347 -0.018023 -0.043208 -0.086624
MP3=FULL         -0.007496   -0.007696       -0.031677 -0.002001 -0.016011         -0.091242
MP4=FULL   -0.002242     -0.007406       -0.034944     -0.001878 -0.015916   -0.002071 -0.018502   -0.091408
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000318 -0.000765 -0.000765 -0.000774 -0.002234 -0.002234 -0.002294 -0.009517 -0.009517 -0.002007 -0.008524 -0.000659 -0.004653   -0.000720 -0.005317   -0.024718
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         0.003408             0.010912 -0.007876   0.010586 -0.011455    
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.007346   -0.007541         -0.001781 -0.015737 -0.045160 -0.001969 -0.018289 -0.045777  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.007074         -0.006093 -0.031184 -0.001698 -0.015200 -0.044256 -0.001878 -0.017702 -0.044863 -0.090299
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.007321           -0.031586 -0.001779 -0.015694 -0.045096 -0.001967 -0.018240 -0.045713 -0.091176
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pCVTZ